The single-page indictment said Shore used a computer to "annoy, abuse, threaten and harass" the receiver of the e-mail, but does not name Bunning, R-Ky., as the recipient. The indictment also says Shore did not disclose his identity in the e-mail.

The Lexington (Kentucky) Herald-Leader reported that the alleged threat in the email read "If this political grandstanding does not end today — we will come to your offices and make our point. You are playing a life and death game here. Do you get it." The email was written in all caps.

Shore maintains that he had no intent of committing violence against Sen. Bunning.

Shore served prison time in the 1990s for burglary and was released in 1995. He is a salesman who has been unemployed since 2007.